Poge Twelve
THE SUMMER DAILY
Friday, July 13, 1973
N
Weiskp
h, lengthens
r;pn.la
S.,. TROON, Scotland UP) - Long
'e-Tom Weiskopf stretched his lead
Y Y to three strokes yesterday and
still cheerful Lee Trevino con-
st ceded that his hopes are gone for
a third consecutive British Open
Golf Championship.
"You can't win every time,"
Trevino said yesterday after his
-.. 73 left him 13 strokes off Weis-
kopf's blistering pace through
two rounds of this ancient event.
"All I can do is play my best
and try my hardest," the irre-
pressible Trevino said.
"I can't walk on water.
"I hope Tom wins it."
Tom obviously felt the same
way.
ff. "I WON'T consider myself a
great player until I win a ma-
jor championship," he said.
That's what this game is about-
winning."
Weiskopf, who played his last
:r 4 e four holes in a cold rain, dem-
onstrated the discipline and con-
trolled power that has enabled
him to dominate the American
tour in recent weeks as he shot a
67 and established a three stroke
lead.
Weiskopf's rounds of 68 and
67.- the best each day in this
102nd British Open - gave him
a 133 total, a solid nine strokes
under par on the 7,064 yards of
subtle trouble that makes up
AP Photo the seaside Old Course at the
Framed by the rocky outline of the Scottish coast, Tom Weiskopf smashes his tee shot on Troon's Troon Golf Club.
sixth hole in yesterday's action. Weiskopf, who played simply flawless golf, enhanced his chances of The 30 - year - old Weiskopf,
winning his first major championship with a two-round total of 135, three strokes io front of challeng- owned a healthy margin over
ers Bert Yancey and U.S. Open sensation Johnny "No Wrinkles" Miller. Johnny M i 1 e r, the recently
LAST INNING SCORE REGAINS WIN Sp..rts of
Sorts of
igerssquea b The Daily
See Page I I
From Wire service Reports. Angels staged a semi-miraculous inson. See Page,,,}?"1::.<??;:::#}:>:::: ; 11
DETROIT - Some nights you comeback. Willie Horton ripped a three-
just make' it out alive by the Walks to Dick Sharon and Duke run homer in the first inning and run, leading the Red Sox to a 5-2
skin of your teeth after you Sims preceded McAuliffe's run- Eddie Brinkman had a two-run victory over David Clyde and the
thought it was all in the bag. scoring single to left-center off homer in the, three-run third as -Texas Rangers last night.
That was the story of last night Dave Sells, 4-2. the Tigers took an early 6-0 lead, Harper's homer, his fourth of
Tiger contest, won by the Ben- routing California's 14-game win- the baseball season, came with
gals 7-6 in the bottom of the California had tied the score 6-6 , ner, Bill Singer. one out in the fifth inning and
ninth. in the eighth on a two-run homer sent Clyde, the Rangers' 18-ear-
DikMauif'stebekn by Boh Oliver, his 11th of the Former Angel Mike Strabler, snCldteR gr'18yer
Dick McaAuliffe's tie-breaking starting for Detroit, retired the
single with two out gave Detroit baseball season, which followed first 13 California batters, but NEW YORK - Despite knowl-
the victory after the California an infield single by Frank Rob- gave up four straight hits with edge of her father's illness,
two out in the fifth inning as the Tricia Cox and husband Edward
:..:.....:.:.::::.. :::.:.....:::::.S'15i: :.. Angeis rallied for four runs. attended the New York Yankee-
* * Kansas City Royal baseball con-
M ajor League Standmgs test yesterday. Tricia told news-
Yanks cruise... hounds that she did not think the
AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE NEW YORK - Gene Michael illness was serious enough to
East East drove in three runs, Johhny Cal- cancel the evening plans,
crowned U. S. Open champ, and
Bert Yancey, tied for second at
138.
MILLER HAD a 68 before a
drizzling rain fell from gray
Scottish skies and dampened the
rest of the leaders. Yancey ran
in a 20-foot birdie putt on the
final hole - it hung on the left
lip for a tantalizing moment be-
fore dropping in - for a second
69.
While Weiskopf's lead was im-
pressive, he wasn't yet counting
this ancient title his. Not by any
means.
"I've got to continue to play
good or these guys - if you've
got gsuys like Miller and Jack
Nicklaus and Yancey up there -
they'll go right on by you."
NICKLAUS, the pre-tourney fa-
vorite to win his third British
Open title and break Bobby Jones
record of 13 major champion-
ships, had an erratic 70 - five
birdies and three bogeys - and
was alone at 139 as the tour-
toughened Americans continued
to hold the first four places.
'I just didn't play very well,"
Nicklaus said. "I drove the ball
very poorly, and when I did get
it in the fairway I'd miss the
green."
THE KEY to Weiskopf's round
yesterday was his dominance of
the par 5 holes. He birdied three
of those four, and got two of the
birdies after hitting one iron sec-
ond shots on the green then two-
putting.
The other, on the 577-yard 16th
came after he wedged up to about
eight feet and made the putt..
He also birdied the third hole
from six feet and the seventh
from 10pnd missed 15 footers six
times, once for an eagle.
Wieskopf, who credits a new-
found maturity with his recently
improved -play, missed only three
greens but saved par on all of
them. Twsce he chipped up close
and ran in a 12 footer on the oth-
er.
THE YOUTHFUL Miller also
got around without a bogey and
played the tough back nine in
three under par.
"I feel like I'm in good shape,"
he said. "I'm very relaxed. I'm
not out there going from shot-to-
shot saying 'boy, I'm gonna win
'the tournament."' There's too
many holes left for that."
Yancey got his share of sec-
ond by making birdies on two of
his last three holes, punching a
short iron to within six feet on
the 16th then making the tough
putt on the last hole.
The cutoff figure to qualify for
the final two rounds was 152. One
of the victims was Masters
Champion Tommy Aaron who
had a 153.
W L Pct. GB
New York 50 41 .549 -
Boston 46 39 .541 1
Baltimore 44 38 .536 1'/>
Detroit 46 42 .523 2'.'
Milwaukee 43 44 .44 5
Cleveland 30 58 -.341 18'
West
Oakland 50 39 .562 -
Kansas City 49 43 .533 2',
Minnesota 45 40 .529 3
Calfornia 45 41 .523 3'
Chicato 45 42 .518 4
Texas 30 56 .349 181
Yesterday's Results
Oakland 8, Milwaukee 4
Minnesota 8, Cleveland 41st
Cleveland at Minnesota 2nd
New York 10, Kansas City 3
Boston 5, Texas 2
Detroit 7, California 6
Baltimore 4, Chicago 3
Today's Probable Pitchers
Kansas City (Splittorff 12-5) at New
York (stottlemyre 11-7)
Texas (Bibby 2-3) at Boston (Culp
2-3)
California (wright 7-11) at Detroit
(Lolich 8-8)
Oakland (Holtzman 13-8) at Milwau-
kee (Parsons 3-5)
Cleveland (Bosman 2-8) at Minnesota
(Decker 3-4) -
tam arm . (r Nal R-1 -+ a . iraeo
Chicago
St. Louis
Montreal
Pittsburth
Philadelphia
New York
Los Angeles
Cincinnati
Houston
Atlanta
San Diego
W L Pet. GB
50 38 .568 -
44 41 .518 4',/
41 43 .408 7
39 44 .470 8'/
39 48 .448 101
36 47 434 1112
West
55 34 .618
49 39 .557
49 44 .527
41 50 .451
31 56 .356
5'.
8
15
23
lison hit his first home run of
the baseball season and Matty
Alou, Graig Nettles and Bobby
M u r c e r delivered three hits
apiece, leading the New York
Yankees*to a 10-3 victory over'
the Kansas City Royals last night.
The Yanks lathered Dick Drago,
9-9, Steve Mingori and Bruce Dal
Canton for 17 hits, including a
triple by Thurman Munson and
doubles by Alou, Nettles and
Michael.
Amos Otis staked the Royals to
a first-inning lead when he tag-
ToaysPrhhl ithes go atDbsn,53,fr.i.1t
old bonus baby, to his second loss
in three decisions.-
The Red Sox added three runs
in the eighth inning on Carl Yas-
trzemski's 12th homer of the year.
off reliever Bill Gogolewski.
The Rangers tied it in the top
of the fifth on Jim Mason's triple
and Dave Nelson's single off
Marty Pattin, 9-11, who scattered
six Texas hits for the victory.
Yesterday's Results
Houston 7, Philadelphia 6
Pittsburgh at San Diego (night)
St. Louis at Los Angeles (night)
Other clubs not scheduled
-Today's Probable Pinichers ged Pat Dobson, 5-3, for his 16th
New York (Seaver 9-4 and Sadecki homer of the year following a
0-0) at Cincinnati (Gillingham 12-5 and
McGlothlin 3-2) walk to Cookie Rojas.
Montreal (stoneman 3-5 and MG-
Anally 6-3) at Atlanta (Niekr 9-4 and
Morton 7-6)
Houston, (Wilson 6-9) at Philadelphia . . but so does Boston
(Twitchell 6-3)
St. Louis (Wise 10-4) at San Diego BOSTON-Luis Aparicio singled
(Greif 5-12)
Chicago (Jenkins 9-6) at Los Angeles his 10,000th time at-bat in the
(John 8-4) major leagues and Tomnty Har-
Pitsbuneh (is 1-8)'1A at SannFran-_,
Summer Daily
Sports.
.w
BWtlmOre {mewalr.R n-i9) #r. GAicag4 r'T Ourga taruia ,x-a) aw aau raaac- _v= ,s v: :t«:« r4 . « % b